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He was always a good team-mate, and contrary to what fans say, no one on the team that I've heard speak ever said he 'threw team-mates under the bus.' His remark "it's not me, it's them" to me always meant ("Hey, don't look at me. When you hurt one of us, the team takes care of it, not the individual") even when I saw him say it. The fact is, of course, we don't know what he meant, but it's nice to see fans here celebrating his career. I never particularly liked him, but I sure was glad he was playing for the team I rooted for.
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So glad he got to play and we got to see him year after year before players became interchangeable counters in a human-fantasy league.
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(Have you heard anything about the minor leagues, other than that the start 'will be delayed'?)
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No no! You have it all wrong. No one wants great players anymore. The name of the game is PROSPECTS!!! That's the future. I mean, I could watch them in Portland, sure. But to see them all on the Big Stage??? That's priceless!!!! Manny, Ortiz, Mookie, Yaz, Teddy ... man, those guys are just so LAST YEAR. Get with the program.
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Otta-freaking-VIVA!!! Damn, it doesn't get any better than that! You tell me Fenway isn't going to PACKED with his loyal fans!!
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Garrett Richards, baby!!! 2-2, coming off an ACL injury. Doesn't get any better than that! We may as well start resting players for the post season now!
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You don't get the thinking that we'd rather have good players than mediocre players, even though good players are more expensive? I get that people might not agree with that as a way to improving the team, but you can't really argue (unless Bloom is passing out Cool-Aid) that its not reasonable or that it's just too difficult to understand.
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I really hope you're right (although you inadvertently promoted the argument here: Don't worry; Hernandez could be the next Brock Freaking Holt!)
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After long and deep reflection ... yes. Because essentially, when I fire up a RS broadcast ... Curt Gowdy still does the radio, right? ... I want to hear about players I know and have followed. I don't feel any connection with a team run like a Fantasy Sports team, where players are not human beings but rather abstractions (a complex of statistics) who are basically interchangeable ... that is, the FLorida model, which Bloom represents. Of course I'd rather watch Brock Holt, or Mookie or JBJ than three players I've never heard of who are claimed ? to be better dollar values. (And given the attendance figures from Florida, I believe there are lots of fans who agree with me.) In all fairness, those of you who study league and player statistics closely might not feel this, since you actually do 'know' those players in some sense. But the ordinary fan, who does not spend the time we do on this board, but who does occasionally throw down a few hundred bucks a year on tix, likely does not.
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So let me understand: there are those here arguing that a guy marginally better than Holt is worth 10x his salary? But super-stars are simply a luxury Boston cannot afford?
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Oh yeah! And to think, if they'd made the mistake of signing that scrub Mookie, there would have been no money available for these deals!
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"we're saved!!!"
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And true objectivity was an art ... when?
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Well, there was one. Last year.
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You mean, if after five years, the top executive you've hired leaves you in not quite the same good shape as you were when you hired him, you would consider him unsuccessful? Whoa. That requires way more business acumen than I would dream of possessing. -
Milky toast GM over his head and overmatched
jad replied to Swiharts Ghost's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Having watched the RS since the 50s, I'm used to consecutive miserable seasons, and it never affected the way I followed the team. What was important then was that despite how bad they were, you were following the same guys year after year. These were the players I cared about. If the roster is turned over every year or every few years, why would I feel loyalty? With the internet, I can follow any team i want. Maybe a team where RS sends its best players. -
WOW! And to think, it was only by getting rid of Mookie that we are even in a position to make these fantastic deals!!!
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Hmm. Interesting. Looking over my life, times when I had nothing, and times when I realized I would never spend the money I had: Maybe the $$ amount I spend changes, but I would not say my spending habits change at all. If the lettuce is 10cents more expensive than I think it should be, I don't buy it; if the car or house is listed at what seems a reasonable price and I have the funds, I throw the cash down without even the pretense of bargaining. (This is why I never went into business for myself!)
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Agree, sadly, with every word. (As you say, not based on evidence--it's based on what we know of human nature.)
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Whoa ... Did I ... You guys pay money to get on a site that has stats????
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What you are saying, I realize, is that your brains are bigger than your nut, which I have found (usually by the merciless School of Experience) is a pretty good policy if you want to get anywhere in life! (Yet being an accountant, how could you not realize that if you go to a casino, the more you play the more you are likely to lose? --- I know I know. I'm not trying to seize the moral high ground; how could many of us not know that drinking alcohol can lead to drunkenness, rude and disgusting behavior, and in some cases death or a night of convulsions?)
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Ha. You can probably drink a glass of wine or two without becoming a drooling disgusting drunk within days. I can't do that! I'll bet you can even have a cigarette now and then!
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Nor do I! (If I did, I'd be one of those old guys from Atlantic City you see on tv with a Hawaiian shirt and straw hat: "I used to ahve a wife, kids, a house! I had a job, retirement! I had friends ... and then ....")
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Kimmi-- If you consider 60/40 odds a crapshoot, please join my poker game any time you want. (Las Vegas, on the other hand, setting up roulette wheels, crap tables, and similar scams, considers 51/49 odds a steady and certain form of revenue.)
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Sorry for the typo: I meant "bad teams have as good a chance of winning as good teams". But I'm not sure I follow the intricacies of the argument either way!
